![]() ![]() Stuart), a near-future space pilot test-flew himself 7 million years into the future only to find a dying sun, a cold Earth and a dwindling, incurious race of “little misshapen men with huge heads.” While the heads might contain large brains, they didn’t accomplish much thinking. Heinlein’s “Universe,” a city-sized spaceship might travel for many thousands of years until its multi-generational inhabitants forgot they were even riding in a spaceship at all.Īnd in “Twilight,” by John W. This was from roughly the mid-’30s to the early ’50s, when lean, handsome star-warriors - such as those leading the charge in Jack Williamson’s “Legion of Space” series - could traverse a multi-light-year-sized nebula after only a few hours of heavy turbulence, so long as they turned up the “generators” and tweaked those darn “geodynes” just right. ![]() Back in the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction, the future looked bigger, brighter and more ferocious than it ever would again. ![]()
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